Letter to Jesse Merritt of Farmingdale, NY from Sir Winston Churchill, commenting on a letter of Merritt's shown to him by President Roosevelt regarding Sir George Downing.

Map Cabinet Drawer 8

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Letter: 2 handwritten pages

July 9, 1850

Letter to A.C. Lynch from John Howard Payne, regarding his efforts to help Lynch claim their grandfather's commutation from the latter's service in the Connecticut Continental Line during the Revolutionary War.

Letter from General Clinton asking that some of his officers be allowed to have their wives and children come to New York and general criticism of the practice of "detaining women and children from their husbands and parents".